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VOLUME 71 ? NUMBER 29
MURPHY, N. C., THURSDAY, FEB 16, 1961
8 PAGES THIS WEEK
PUBLISHED
School Off;/ Plan
Discussk A Building
Program Needs, Problems
Murphy
Calendar
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
1:30 p.m. - The Grape Creek
Home Demonstration Club
will meet at the home
of Mrs. E.J.Greer.
3:30 p.m. - Concord Choir at
First Methodist Church.
7:00 p.m. - Lions.Club will
observe their 35th Anni
, ,v'rs?ry it New Regal Hotel.
7:30 p.m. - Community Pra
yer Service at Free Metho
dist Church.
Murphy Woman's Club will
meet at the Power Board
Building. A landscape arch
itect from Asheville will be
guest speaker.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
9:00 a.m. - Cherokee County
Leader Craft workshop will
be held at the Murphy Elec
tric Power Board Building.
3:30 p.m. - Wold Day of Prayer
will be observed at First
Baptist Church. Public Is
invited to attend.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19
5:30 p.m. - Presbyterian and
Methodist Pioneer-Fellow
ship meeting at the Presby
terian Church.
6:30 p.m. - Training Union of
First Baptist Church.
7:30 p.m. - Mission Study
School at the Presbyterian
Church.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
6:30 p.m, - The Rotary Club
will meet at the Family
Restaurant.
The Clvitan Club will meet
?t the New Regal Hotel.
7:30 p.m. - The Men's Choir
of First Baptist Church will
meet at the Church.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 71
3:15 p.m. -TheSun beam Choir
of First Baptist Church will
meet at the Church.
3:30 p.m. - Circle No. 3 of
First Methodist Church will
meet with Mrs. W.P.Odom.
The Junior Fellowship will
meet at the Presbyterian
Church.
The Carol Choir will meet
?t First Baptist Church.
4:15 p.m. - The Cherub Choir
will meet at First Baptist
Church.
Celestial Choir will meet
at First Baptist Church.
7:30 p.m.- Circle No. Two of
the First Methodist Church
will meet at the home of
Mrs. W. E. Howell.
Alcoholic Anonymous will
meet attheNew Regal Hotel.
8:00 p.m. - The Rev. David
p?rks. Missionary to Korea
will speak at the Presby
terian Church.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
3:30 p.m. - Chapel Choir will
be held at First Baptist
Church,
7:30 p.m. - Hour of Prayer
?t First Bapdst Church.
Mid-week services at the
First Methodist Church.
8:30 p.m. - Choir practice at
First Baptist Church.
Choir rehearsal at First
Methodist Church.
Brtok la Hits $20
At Hiwossm Dam
School list Wook
Twenty dollars was taken
and $150 damage done to doors
and locks when the Hiwassee
Dam School was burglarized
last Wednesday night. Sheriff
Claude Anderson reported.
The thieves entered the
building after knocking the
glass out of one of the back
doors. A soft drink box was
torn open.
The $20 was taken from the
desk In the principle's office.
The drawer had been forced
open.
The office was completely
ransacked.
Sheriff Anderson and Deputy
Lloyd Ramsey investigated.
Sheriff Anderson said a simi
lar Incident occured over in
Polk County. Tenn., the same
night.
Mayes BeHmai
To Speak At
Marpby P-TA Meet
Mayes Behrman, director
of the illiteracy training pro
gram over television for the
Campbell Folk School, will
tell about the activities of
this movement at the Febr
uary meeting of Murphy Par
ent-Teacher Association on
next Monday night, Feb. 20.
The Rev. R. T. Houts, Jr.,
of First Methodist Church,
will bring the devotional for
the meeting, to be held in
the grammar school audi
torium.
Mrs. Gfl?s Covtr
Atteads
UDC DedkotioR
Mrs. Giles Cover of And
rews, ? member of the United
Daughters of theConfederacy
Centennial Commission re
turned home from Washington,
D. C? last week.
She attended the dedication
of a plaque In the National
Cathedral, presented by the
State of Virginia in honor of
the 20 men who spent a month
In the Wlllard Hotel trying to
achieve peace before the War
Between the States. It will
later be placed permanently in
the Wlllard Hotel.
Afterwards, she attended a
reception for Luther H. Hod
ges, Secretary of Commerce,
and Mrs. Hodges, given bySen.
and Mrs. Sam Ervlm
Parrette Clinic
Has Low
Birth Death Rate
Robbinsvllle - According to
a recent report prepared by
the Maternal and Child Health
Section of the Nortli Carolina
Sate Board of Health, the
Parrette Clinic of RobMns
ville ranks third among all
hospitals and clinics tn the
state in the low death rate
of babies delivered during the
years of 1957, 1958, and 1959.
Parrette Clinic had 232 de
liveries during this three
year period with a mortality
rate of 4.8 in perinatal
births, that is, before, dur
ing, and after birth. Mortality
In this period Is primarily
due to prenatal and natal
factors. The Parrette Clinic
has recorded only one ma
ternal death since it was open
ed in May, 1947, by Drs,
Richard G. and Nettle C.
Parrette.
Van Gorder Appointee
Andrews - Gov. Terry San
ford Saturday appointed Dr.
Charles O. Van Gorder to the
board of trustees for Western
Carolina College.
Dr. VanGorderwill succeed
H. A. Helder of Canton, who
died last month.
AUNT HET
Amy's i born worrier. She
sty* the things she worries
?bout most never happen: so
If ? thing don't worry her,
she knows If s goln* to happen
and starts worryln' about It.
The Murphy School System
will hold discussions about the
current school pro hi ems and
plans Thursday and Friday
of this week. The discussions
will be held in the adminis
trative office, now located in
the Rock Building that used
to house the Regional Library.
The hours are 9:00 to 11:00
a.m. and 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
both days.
All interested citizens are
invited to come by to ask
questions, make suggestions,
and discuss the problems pre
sented by the recent fire that
destroyed the Murphy Ele
mentary School Building.
Members of the Board of
Education are expected to be
on hand along with Superin
tendent Holland McSwain and
possibly Principals John Jor
dan and Walter Puett.
The school officials plan to
make known the needs and re
quirements of the entire build
ing program for the system.
Area Trout Stream
Designated by
Wildlife Protector
Andrews - Wildlife Pro
tector Trainee Kenneth Beam
released names of the follow
ing streams as designated
Trout streams.
Valley River - extends from
new Murphy School bridge to
head.
Junaluska Creek - entire
creek.
Davis Creek - Low Water
bridge at Fess Davis to head.
Ball Creek-Entire Creek.
Beaver Dam Creek - Joe
Brown Highway bridge to head.
Copper Creek - Entire
Creek.
The trout season opens on
April I, 1961
Bidstraps Attend
Soalhwa Moaataias
Maatiag At Gottiabaq
Mr. ind Mrs. George Bld
strup of Brasstown, repre
senting John C.Campbell Folk
School, attended the annual
conference of the Council of
the Southern Mountains at
Gatllnburg, Tennessee last
week. Between four and five
hundred community leaders,
representatives of business,
colleges, industries, and or
ganizations, as well as private
individuals from throughout
the Southern Appalachian reg
ion, meet yearly at the
Mountain View Hotel to study
religious, educational, social,
economic, and health prob
lems, as well as factors
pertaining to the arts and
crafts. This year's theme:
GETTING THE MOST OUT
OF LIFE IN THE MOUNT
AINS.
I ?
: After Deadline
ByJerueBabb
Here's a reprint from
Hugh Park's "Around Town"
which appeared In the At
lanta Journal some years ago,
entitled "When a Southern
Lady Left Her Estate To
God."
One woman In Cherokee
County, North Carolina, nam
ed God as her beneficiary.
To settle the estate, a case
was made naming God as a
party thereof.
A summons was issued.
Later, the sheriff filed a re
port that stated, "After due
and diligent search, God
cannot be found in Cherokee
County."
My thanks to John Davidson
for supplying me with this
Information.
Due to ' the basket-ball
tournament this week and
next, the "Heart Party", at
the Folk School for Phillip
Merrill has been postponed
tntll a later date. The time
will be announced in this
paper, to be looking for It.
Visit Research Farm
Ray Dockery, Charles Hobbs, and Gene Clayton, shown left
to right above, returned Wednesday from a sepclalized hog
and cattlemen's trip to the Ralston Purina Research Farm
near St. Louis, Mo.
Hobbs, the Purina salesman for this area. Just recently
moved to Murphy from Rome, Ga. Dockery works for Stiles
Produce Co. Gene Clayton is the manager for Whitfield's
Hereford Farm, Murphy.
Senator Forsyth
Named To
10 COHMlttOOS
Lt. Gov. H. Cloyd Philpot
has appointed Senator W.
Frank Forsyth to ten commit
tees.
The Senator will head the
Salaries and Fees Committee
and will serve as Vice-Chair
man of the Finance Commit
tee. Other Committees are
Banking. Congressional Dis
tricts. Conservation and
Development, Manufacturing,
Labor and Commerce, Pro
position and Grievances, Uni
versity Trustees, and the
Wildlife.
Frank H. Hensley
Installs Turbines
On Niagara Project
The No. 1 generator at the
Robert Moses Niagara Power
Plant at Niagara Falls, N. Y.,
is generating power at the rate
of 200,000 kilowatts, faster
than any other single hydro
electric unit in the world.
Frank H. Hensley, son of
Mrs. Vesu Hensley of Mur
phy is one of the turbine
erectors working on the hugh
project.
The
WEATHER
The week's temperatures
and rainfall below are record
ed In Murphy by the TV A
Hydrallc Data Branch, Chest
er Lawson, Area Engineer,
Readings for temperatures
are for the 24 hour period,
ending at 4 p.m. on the day
listed.
The temperature at And
rews Is recorded for the 24
hour period ending at 7 a.m
on the day listed.
MURPHY
High
Tue. Feb. 7 46
Wed. 46
Thu. 36
Fri. 52
Sat. 61
Sun. 72
Mon. 75
Tue.
Low Rain
34 .19
36 .74
31 .02
17 tract
24 .00
25 .00
29 .00
43 .00
ANDREWS
High
50
41
36
51
38
72
72
Low
36
32
18
1<>
23
23
31
Marshals Named
For Hlwassee
School Graduation
Six of the juniors have been
chosen at Hlwassee Dam High
School to be marshals at the
graduation exercises which
will be some time in May.
They were chosen as the
tlx students having the high
est grades In the jipilor class.
They were: Deanna Allen,
Linda Boring, Nellie Bruce,
Glenda Clonts, Rickey Bagley,
and Jack Hamby.
These students have worked
very hard during their years
In high school to have grades
high enough to be honored by
being chosen as marshals.
Did You
KNOW?
THAT
The "Heart Party" sche
duled for the 17th has been
postponed until a later date.
The Basket-ball Tournament
Is in progress this week, and
next, and many of the people
who would come to the party
will also be going to the
tournament. Watch for thedate
to be announced in this paper.
THAT
You can help create a public
opinion which might help stop
thoughtless people from being
litterbugs. Have you noticed
that we, in this area, are get
ting lax concerning this very
"nasty" habit? It is not only
unsightly, but unsanltaryl It
not only mars the beauty of
the roadsides, but detracts
from the beauty of our indi
vidual home groundsl It is
not only a bad habit, but is
against the lawl
THAT
Our young people are anx
ious to t?ke advantage of op
portunities for improving
their attitudes --- for example
--David Cribble attended the
49th annual conference of the
Council of the Southern
Mountains, held inGatlinburg,
Tenn., Feb. 7-11, 1961. The
theme of that meeting was:
"Getting the most out of life
in the Mountains." Those who
know David feel that he will
bring back some good ideas
which will help our young
folks to not only ask what
they "can do for their coun
try," but will actually DO
it! Orchids to David for his
effort to learn by doingl
THAT
It is being said by many
sociologists that we're get
ting away from the neighborly
way of community living we
used to enjoy ? are we, in this
area, guilty of doing only the
things which benefit us dl
recdy, or are weworkingwith
a group to improve our com
munities? It Is well to pause
occasionally and ask oursel
ves some of these soul
searching questions: "What
have I done in the past week
which helped anyone except
my immediate family?" How
can I do the things needed for
the improvement of my com
munity as a whole?" There Is
one "action" group now meet
ing once each week at the Folk
School, on Wednesday. 1:00
2:00 p.m. which gives thought
to just such questions. Our
manners to this group, and
our best wishes for thelrcon
tinued enthuslasml
THAT
Sometimes folks ?re
"onery" because they do not
eit the foods their body needs
? This may sound queer to
many who are not conscious
of the fact they're not always
sweet and amiable ? but to
those who care about "hard
ening of the attitudes" as well
as the hardening of the art
eries? -The suggestion thai
we need to become Informed
concerning the kinds, and the
quantities of foods we need
dally, might be welcomel Be
sure that your information Is
authentic, and beware of fadsl
Lions Mark 35th Anniversary
With Banquet; International
Vice President To Speak
Aubrey D. Green of York,
Ala., third vice president of
Lions International, will ad
dress the thirty-fifth anni
versary banquet of the Murphy
Lions Club Thursday, Febr
uary 16, at 7 p.m. at the New
Regal Hotel.
Program principals will
include District 31 -A Lions
Club Cabinet Officers repre
senting 36 clubs with some
1,600 members in twelve west
ern mountain counties.
Green was elected third vice
president at the annual con
vention in .luly, 1960, at
Chicago, 111., and has served
as president of theYorkLions
Club, zone chairman, deputy
district governor and district
governor.
A past international di
rector and a former member
of the International executive
committee. Green has recei
ved the 100 per cent District
Governor's Award, The Ex
tension and Key Member
Awards.
An Alabama State Senator
Green is chairman of theState
Senate Corporations Commit
tee and a member of the Bank
Boglty To Lead
Paiel Discission
Or Education
Harry C. Bagley with other
educational leaders from
Cherokee County will pre
sent a panel discussion on
the goals of theBetterSchools
Committee of North Carolina
over Radio Station WKRK on
Wednesday, Feb. 22, at
5:15 p.m.
Scheduled to take part on
the program are H. A. Mat
tox. Judge Herman Edwards,
Superintendent Holland Mc
Swain, all of Murphy, and S.
J . Gernert of Andrews.
ing. Education, -Health, High
way, Aviation and Traffic
Senate Committees.
Green, an automobile dealer
in York and Livingston, is a
director of the Alabama Auto
mobile Dealers Association,
the York Chamber of Com
merce and the Sumter County
Industrial DevelopmentBoard.
He Is board chairman of
the York Manufacturing Cor
poration, manufacturers of
"Boe-Rider" trailers.
Green attended Auburn and
the General Motors School of
Merchandising and Manage
ment. and is deacon and treas
urer of the YorkPresbyterian
Church. He and his wife have
a daughter, Mary Ellen.
Additional Workers
For Heart
Council Named
Mrs. Cloe Moore and Mr.
John Savage, co-chairmen (or
the West Cherokee County
Heart Campaign during the
week of February 20-28.
Mr. Clyde Sneed will work
the Murphy business district.
Mr. Walter Puett will be In
charge of special events, Mr.
J. Alden Cook will work Wolf
Creek section, Mrs. Bertha
Chambers will be in charge
of Unaka, Mrs. Ella B. Rags
dale will be In charge of the
Texana area, Mrs. C. C. Rob
erts will work Tomotla sec
tion, Mrs. Hazel Hughes will
work the Belview section, also
King and Hughes's store will
help the drive in the Belview
section, Peachtree will have
Mrs. Vida Witt and Mrs.
Carolyn Lovingood.
p0O
Within the next 30 days,
and probably before the end
of February, two pieces of
legislation relating to North
Carolina's Minimum Wage
Law will be Introduced in the
1961 edition of the Legis
lature. These bills will try to:
1. Increase minimum pay
from its present 75< to J1.00
per hour.
2. Broaden very, very much
the present law. . .but keep
it at 75< per hour.
DIVISION OF THOUGHT
Now among the leaders in
the 1959 scufflings to get a
minimum wage established In
this State, there Is not the
inlty of thinking that was so
evident about this time two
years ago.
In the first place. Sam J.
Burrow, Jr., of Randolph
County, chief fighter in the
House for the law In 19S9 is
now adlgnlfled---thoughstlll
a crew-cut liberal ? State
Senator.
It Is understood thatSenator
Burrows, who Introduced the
$1 measure inl959, mightpre
fer to broaden the present law
then to begin playing with the
$1 item and run a chance of
the whole klt-and-keboodle
being defeated. Some others
feel likewise- --good liberals,
too.
Then two of the 1959 fight
ers for the law---Joe ICin
cald Byrd of Burke County,
and Frank N. Patterson, Jr.,
of Stanley County ---have,
alas, been replaced by Repub
licans Dan R. Simpson and
Clyde H. Whitley, respective
ly. In fact. Senator Burrows'
Randolph County place In the
House has been taken over by
Republican Roby Gamer. Big
changes.
DOLLE Y FOR DOLLAR
But Stephen Bland Dolley,
Jr., 31-year-oldGastonlalaw
yer, was a not minimum wager
in 1959---and he is back. He
wants a $1.00. Banker Danny
M. Courtney of Caldwell, also
a front-line fighter in '59,
Is with us ? but hasn't yet
tipped his hand. They will be
courting Courtney.
OUT WITH EXEMPTIONS
This may be denied in of
ficial quarters, but the word
we get is that the N. C. Dept.
of Labor would prefer to see
the law stay at 75i, with most
of the exemptions out, than to
see it go to $1.00 with the
exemptions.
We doubt that Labor Com
missioner Frank Crane would
shout it from the rooftops ?
but will wager you this is his
opinion. He is a good man.
solid for labor, but is a real
ist-? not an Idealist in this
respect.
The first exemption to go
will be the one eliminating
from the law firms having
fewer than six employees.
Several employers having
more than five are already
upset with that one.
As you know, objectors to
the law, any law, in 1959, shot
It through with exemptions- ?
a long list of them. Most, but
not all, of these will be knock
ed out, pulling thousands
more under the 75< law.
That is the way it looks
from here? -at this time.
Roy Taylor Studies
Redevelopment Act
Twelfth District Congress
man Roy A. Taylor has an
nounced that he Is making a
"careful study" of the "Area
Re-development Act" now
pending before the United
States Senate.
,
Aubrey D. Green
Horn* Aid CoMMfli
BMvtifkotioa PIobs
Mad* By Stsdy Geo
The Wednesday StudyGro
which meets at the Fo
School from 1:00 till 2 p.r
made definite plans to do M
things: 1. Beautify their ot
homes, and 2. enlist the ei
tire community's helpinmal
ing Brasstown one of d
prettiest places in the scat
Knowing that they mu
start with basic projects, th
will have Mr. George Thorn
son. State Highway Sum
visor, as consultant on
Wednesday, Feb. IS, atfl
p.m. He will be able
them what they can
of the state highway, am^H
is just Important, what^f
state highway expect fronM
folks who want to beautify a
roadsides.
On subsequent Wednesday
there will be other consu
tarns who will be able to coi
tribute suggestions, and Idea
which will be valuable to th
ambitious "Action" sta
group; Anyone interested
invited to join. Come as y<
are! Nobody dresses upl
Those in attendance at tl
Feb. 8th meeting were M
and Mrs. Fred G. Smith, M
and Mrs. Cecil Tipton, Mr
Glenn Hyatt, Mrs. Bura
Sales, Mrs. Boyd Scfogg
and Mrs. Velma Beam Moori
115 Girl Scouts
Attend Marble
Friendship Rally
Girl Scout Troop #233
Marble, N. C? was host
US Girl Scouts arid their adi
leaders at the Intemation
Friendship Rally in the Mart
School Auditorium last Moi
day afternoon.
Six troops from the Hii
wassee neighborhood pari
ctpated in the celebration
Troops 204. 211, 212, and 2
of Murphy; - Troop 215
Peach tree and Troop 233
Marble.
The troops presented the!
Juliette Low World FrlenJ
ship Fund Collections ai
boxes of clothing to be dli
tributed to those InneedovaJ
seas. Troop 233 led the Coll
Ceremony and Troop 204 mal
a golden chain of friendsll
honoring the 44 memll
nations of the World Assoa
don of Girl Guides and
Scouts.
A movledeplctingGlrlSj
activities in 1918 was shM
and refreshments, in theft?
of Girl Scout cookies, wfl
served. Mrs. Merle Dew
Hlawassee Neighborhood ?
sociation Chairman, presit^
Press Trouble
We're in trouble and w
you to bear with us.
Out new press was damaj
beyond repair during insu
lation last weak. A nod
press has been ordered i
Is expected to arrive Hie ft
week In March.
Until then we are prlnd
the paper under maketl
conditions. We ask your I
dulgence. Thank you. |
Washington's Birthday Sale In Murphy Tuesdad